15929969460001312637261000Standard Recordobject-118971170678015757716939255210001706780144255fitz-onlineadlib-object-118971https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11897180e67a27-5487-311e-b153-c92303ef755912referenceagent-173649adlib-agent-173649db0ab074-06d9-3a6e-af27-dd0322edeb47Cassel, Ernest, Sirpersonreferenceagent-152759adlib-agent-1527595c091042-4a5e-35cc-b5f3-2152afa269e4puttoreferenceterm-39778adlib-term-397788bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245silverreferenceterm-33485adlib-term-334859ae33a29-bc7d-3305-be0f-4a0919842f7fsolderRepairreferenceterm-39778adlib-term-397788bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245silverJar And CoverDiametercm15Diameterin5⅞Vase MouthDiametercm17Diameterin6¾Heightcm16Heightin6¼Weightg510Weightoz: dwt16: 8CoverDiametercm18.3Diameterin7¼Vase FootHeightcm31Heightin12¼Weightg2390Weightoz: dwt76: 17Vase OnlyBodysilver, embossed, chased, and matted, the vase with applied plain neck and footreferenceterm-125937adlib-term-1259377861750a-4734-3bc3-9752-fd76a6601024raisingDecorationreferenceterm-120094adlib-term-12009431cc7279-332d-3f56-8958-4919fd3730camatting (punching)referenceterm-26881adlib-term-2688188d2ea1e-d238-34e8-8bde-82e4187f5ad4embossingreferenceterm-29641adlib-term-296412cca4338-6a77-3f63-9174-0a137a118930chasingApplied ArtsSilver, embossed and chased with putti amongst scrolling foliage against a matted ground; plain neck and foot; replacement knobSilver, the body and cover embossed, chased, and matted, with applied plain neck and foot. The base is made separately from the sides. Of robust baluster form with incurved neck and foot, domed cover with projecting rim, and a finial comprising a depressed globular knop made in two halves, surmounted by a smaller ball. On three sides of the body there are plain oval cartouches flanked by scrolling foliage. The rest of the surface is decorated in relief with putti amongst scrolling acanthus foliage and flowers against a matted ground. The incurved neck and foot are plain. The projecting edge of the cover is decorated with bound laurel, and the dome with three circular cartouches containing a stylized bud, two of which are flanked by putti with swags below them, and by acanthus foliage which extends round the sides, against a matted ground. In the centre there is a plain silver band from which the finial rises. The depressed globular knop is decorated with upward and downward pointing acanthus foliage, radiating from the bottom and top respectively, and the ball above has a stylized flower on its top.8referenceexhibition-1937adlib-exhibition-193712be6802-a3f6-36bf-982b-e5e4b0cab551The Cassel Silver85referenceexhibition-3305adlib-exhibition-3305534a3247-91a9-398f-abe9-7b419586f568Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800)referenceexhibition-3815adlib-exhibition-38158e5244e3-f18e-3d6b-9c58-5238f666b36eRefugee Silver: Huguenots in BritainM.11 & A-20051accession numberM.11 & A-2005118971priref118971urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118971https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118971in shield-shaped outlineon neckstruckI.B a crescent below and two pelletsmaker's markleopard's headon neckstruckhallmarklion passanton neckstruckhallmarkgothicon neckstruckQhallmarkcircular yellow paper labelinside coverhand-written in black biro300labelrectangular pale blue labelon basehand-written in blue biro300labelreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPurchased with the Cunliffe and Perceval Funds, aided by grants from the National Art Collections Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fundreferenceagent-150858adlib-agent-150858d36d1847-4d6a-33eb-974b-f4b061db49f9Sotheby's200520052005-07-18boughtThe jar formed part of the Cassel Collection sold to a consortium of museums through Sotheby's.16731673CE1673circa16731674The date letter is indisctinct but appears to be gothic Q for 1673-74. It is definitely not the gothic R for 1674-75.11674CE16741674goldsmithreferenceagent-171934adlib-agent-1719344b2cfbce-f412-34fa-b69b-b39357ff516dBodendeich, JacobJacob Bodendeich was born at Lüneberg where he served his apprenticeship between 1650 and 1654. He probably came to London at the end of the 1650s and was granted citizenship in 1661. Shortly afterwards he married Susan Mouse, daughter of the goldsmith William Mouse. Bodendeich excelled at chasing and was one of the most talented goldsmiths working in London during the 1660s and 1670s, a period of ostentatious expenditure on furnishings and plate. He registered his mark in May 1664 and was made free of the City of London in August 1673 and of the Goldsmiths’ Company in October 1673. He died in 1681. He signed himself Bodendeich, but his name is sometimes anglicized as Bodendick. The most detailed discussion of his life and work is by Eric J.G. Smith (see Documentation, 2001 and 2002)Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: Ginger jar and domed cover with putti amongst foliage Although the purpose of Chinese porcelain ‘ginger jars’ remains unclear, their bulbous shape became very fashionable in Europe. Imitations were made in silver during the seventeenth century, such as this one made by the London-based German silversmith, Jacob Bodendeich, and in hard- or soft-paste porcelain in the eighteenth century, purely for decoration.This ‘ginger jar’ is a handsome example of the silver vases which were displayed on top of cabinets and elsewhere in wealthy households at that time. John Evelyn remarked on the ‘huge Vasas of wrought plate’ in the apartment of the Duchess of Portsmouth in his diary in October 1683. The form was derived from Chinese baluster vases, which often formed the central vase of a garniture of three or more, although the silver versions are usually termed ‘ginger jars’.The decoration of putti amongst foliage was inspired by printed designs such as A New Booke of Foldages by Polifilo Giancarli published by John Overton in 1672, or by the French artist, Jean Lepautrereferenceterm-118768adlib-term-11876829189213-4535-3c4d-91a9-481c5977501417th Century, third quarter#referenceterm-107696adlib-term-10769673d598b5-9f18-3ba8-93d4-b1d02583d300Charles IIreferenceterm-106216adlib-term-106216825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0literalEnglandEnglandcountryLondonDiametercm28.5Diameterin11¼Heightcm46Heightin18⅛Weightg2900Weightoz: dwt93: 5referencemedia-205937adlib-media-205937de17619c-ea59-3661-b9cd-9b8527982fc8jpegaa/aa37/M_11_20_26_20A_2005_1_201001_amt49_dc2.jpg1heightpixels1050widthpixels78816162815923691imagejpegaa/aa37/mid_M_11_20_26_20A_2005_1_201001_amt49_dc2.jpg1heightpixels666widthpixels50016162815923691imagejpegaa/aa37/M_11_20_26_20A_2005_1_201001_amt49_dc2.jpg1heightpixels1050widthpixels78816162815923691imagejpegaa/aa37/preview_M_11_20_26_20A_2005_1_201001_amt49_dc2.jpg1heightpixels333widthpixels25016162815923691image0media
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imagereferenceterm-89928adlib-term-89928c69c563b-637d-3c31-8dad-c8e876501680ginger jarreferenceterm-107478adlib-term-10747881002e74-5083-37b8-a429-4a303fc40695covercovered vasehistory noteSir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921), Brook House, Mayfair, London; his granddaughter, Lady Edwina Ashley, who married in 1922 Lord Louis Mountbatten; by descent to the vendor from whom purchased through Sotheby'sreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. p. 86, fig. 986referencepublication-200001961adlib-publication-200001961b89a99ee-7f75-30bb-b6cb-6f0f05bc8101The Late Sir Ernest Cassel’s Collection of Old English Plate. - IIPubl. p. 102, illustrated with other jars on p. 103102-3referencepublication-5311adlib-publication-5311ab3d1e5e-15a0-3c89-8eb6-978b5285e661Treasures at Salters' HallPubl. p. 34, illustrated p. 3534-5referencepublication-5310adlib-publication-5310309b56ca-996f-3426-b1d2-2319f1b03c74The Cassel SilverPubl. p. 65, Julia E. Poole, '5534, Cambridge. Fitzwilliam Miuseum, Jacob Bodendick (1633/4-81), Ginger jar and cover', illustrated65referencepublication-5683adlib-publication-5683c700cdd7-728b-310a-8703-e54c9d35107c2005 Review, The Annual Report of the National Art Collections FundPubl. with colour illustration54referencepublication-5941adlib-publication-594174edf30c-04e4-332f-b562-3c79b967d960The Fitzwilliam Museum Review 2004-2006Publ. p. 68, fig. 3.14, and p. 250, cat. no. 85.68referencepublication-8743adlib-publication-8743a86a8f73-aae5-372c-930d-aa215bd02c9bFeast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800referencepublication-5312adlib-publication-53128c4d0eee-0c7b-387c-aeb7-903e5359c508Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyRef. pp. 66-80 for Bodendick. See p. 67, fig. 2 for his mark more clearly shown than on the neck of the vase.66-80referencepublication-200001959adlib-publication-2000019599b0eee17-a922-3ee6-b736-bbbb65c482c4Jacob BodendickRef. pp. 109-22 for Bodendeich. Cf. p. 120, fig. 29, one of a pair of vases with covers, without a foot ring, and with differently-shaped cover, of 1675-76 in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.109-122referencepublication-200001960adlib-publication-200001960e7cf52ab-fe5f-32a0-adab-769cdb1e0d55Jacob BodendeichCf. p. 246, lot 359 a pair of silver-gilt jars by R. & S. Garrard, 1875, of almost identical form and with comparable decoration incorporating a coat-of-arms, on one vase, Cust impaling Lascelles with annulet and label for difference, of Peregrine Francis and Lady Isabella Mary Montaue Scott, 3rd daughter of William 4th Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and the other, Cust quartering Brownlow with an anulet for difference, of their son, John Francis Cust, Lt Col. Late Grenadier Guards (1825-1903), a nephew of the 1st Earl Brownlow, and his wife, Lady Florence Harriet Lascelles, 4th daughter of Henry 3rd Earl of Harewood, whom he married in 1861. Sold from the estate of Lilyan S. Lindemann. Estimate $20-30,000.246referencepublication-5916adlib-publication-5916c5453ec1-8fc7-3eff-b66a-651b19ac0581A Celebration of the English Country House including Silver and Chinese Export PorcelainCf. pp. 78-9, lot 46, Peter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (Haarlem 1629/30-1700 London), a vanitas still-life including a silver ginger jar and cover of this type but with different base and cover of different form. Roestraten moved to London in the 1660s. The sale catalogue entry includes as fig. 1, a set of three silver-gilt jars from the collection of the Earl of Home, sold Christie's, 14 December 2006, lot 100.78-9referencepublication-5917adlib-publication-591732e11e96-e446-3a27-b55d-dac7c22b33fbOld Master and British PicturesCf. pp. 24-5, lot 44, a pair of beaker-shaped vases by Jacob Bodendick, London 1674, with comparable embossed decoration. 34 cm high. Provenance: Mrs William Randolph Hearst Sr.; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 11 November 1975, lot 259; British Rail Pension Fund. Reference is made to a ginger jar by Bodendick sold Sotheby's London, 17th November 1960, lot 174 from the collection of the Rt Hon Lord Fairfax of Cameron.24-5referencepublication-7622adlib-publication-76223482b6bc-caab-3208-bc61-f8e8c7307770Important English Silverreferenceterm-10624adlib-term-10624c882b99a-0b49-320e-8d8a-fd72a34d8848Baroqueplantreferenceterm-4749adlib-term-4749134828f6-5031-3e4b-a59b-ab4a880538d6acanthusliteralacanthusacanthusreferenceterm-89928adlib-term-89928c69c563b-637d-3c31-8dad-c8e876501680ginger jarginger jarGinger jar and coverobject
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